" Passions, not interests, drive men ". Charles Gide, critical reader of Karl Marx

Professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Annie L. Cot specializes in the history of economic theory, economic philosophy and the epistemology of the social sciences. She has worked on Jeremy Bentham and classical utilitarianism, on French and British authors of the ^19th century and the first two     ^century ; on the writings of Albert O. Hirschman ; on the ways in which economic theories are disseminated through seminars or travelling models ; on the notion of " fait économique " and its successive modes of construction ; on the shifting boundaries of economic theories ; on the evolution of Michel Foucault's view of economic discourse between Les Mots et les Choses and the lectures given at the Collège de France. She has been a visiting professor in the USA (UMass at Boston, Harvard), Japan (Kansei Gakuin University, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Prague (Charles University), Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá) and Uruguay (Universidad de la República, Montevideo).